Kokosing Materials
Mobilizes Their LOTO
OVERVIEW
After being founded by a humble farm boy
named William “Bill” Burgett, Kokosing has
grown into an industry leader that employs
over 3,000 people and generates more than
$1 billion in annual revenue.
Kokosing Materials operates multiple asphalt plants
throughout the state of Ohio. This includes one portable
asphalt plant that moves from job site to job site, as
needed. They also have two liquid asphalt terminals.
| FOUNDED 1980 | INDUSTRY Manufacturing |
| WEBSITE kokosingmaterials.com |
20
Different Job Sites
900+
LOTO Documents/Procedures
“Our LOTO procedures were all on my computer in Word files.
They weren’t easily accessible or easily changed or modified. Someone would ask me, ‘Hey Chuck can you do this?’ And I would be like, ‘Yeah, I’ll get to that tomorrow, or the next time I get to my computer, I will take care of it.'”
CHUCK MULL, HSE DIRECTOR, KOKOSING MATERIALS
“We recognize that safety is an ever-evolving journey and to
that end, we have adopted a Safety 24/7 culture. Every year our
incident rate goal is zero. We pride ourselves in sending every
employee home the same way they arrived to work.”
LEE SCHLOSS, PRESIDENT, KOKOSING MATERIALS
“People now call me and ask, ‘Hey we switched this out,
can you change the procedure for me?’ And they get that
updated procedure in their hands that same day.”
CHUCK MULL, HSE DIRECTOR, KOKOSING MATERIALS
CHALLENGE
Kokosing takes safety very seriously, and feels that, “One incident is too many.”
So, after they had a lockout/tagout related injury, they saw an immediate need to improve.
They needed a simple and scalable lockout/tagout tool that could be accessible for their employees across 20 different job sites.
Kokosing materials had an extensive LOTO library, but it was only accessible from one place: Their HSE Director’s computer.
Chuck Mull was a “one-man show” when it came to safety and LOTO at the time.
RESULTS
Field iD made Kokosing’s 900+ LOTO documents / procedures accessible to 35 frontline users, across 20 different job sites.
Crucial procedures were no longer limited to a single computer. They were now on everyone’s smartphones and in their pockets.
Field iD also made it easier to train new employees by ensuring that all employees have access to the proper LOTO procedures, whether it’s their 1st week on the job or their 50th. Kokosing is also able to make quick and easy updates, such as changes to the way they put a new air cylinder on, or a different way of locking a retainer ball valve out.
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